September 18, 2009
The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards are this Sunday at 8pm on CBS. Hostedby Neil Patrick Harris, it looks like two shows will have astranglehold on the night:
July 17, 2009
The Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and there were sometruly out-of-the-box nominees. Sarah Silverman for Lead Actress in aComedy for her Comedy Central show? Flight of the Conchords for ComedySeries and Jemaine Clement for Lead Actor? Simon Baker from TheMentalist? And Family Guy for Outstanding Comedy Series? Yeah, thesearen‘t your daddy‘s Emmys.
July 16, 2009
A complete list of the 2009 Emmy nominees for Drama Series, Acting, Writing and Directing.
July 15, 2009
It‘s Emmy nomination eve as TV fans are looking forward to tomorrowmorning‘s Emmy nominations, announced at 8:35am ET by Grey‘;s Anatomy‘sChandra Wilson and
July 3, 2009
In honor of the birth of the United States of America, we present our list of 50 TV stars born in each of the 50 state capitals.
June 9, 2009
A lot is made of the overwhelming number of great leading roles forwomen on cable, but if the official Emmy ballots are any indication,women are still a minority when it comes to starring TV roles. On theofficial ballot sent to Emmy voters, there are 70 contenders forOutstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, but only 48 for the LeadActress category.
May 29, 2009
As we approach the May 31 finale of the stinging AMC black dramedy Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul, who plays Jesse Pinkman, the intense junior partner of Bryan Cranston‘s chemistry teacher cum meth producer Walter White, says they have great "chemistry together," pun slightly intended.
April 1, 2009
Every year, the Peabody Awards honor excellence in television, and this year’s recipients represent a broad range of genres. From news to satire, from the Olympics to a period miniseries, from sci-fi to animation, the Peabodys are honoring a little bit of everything.
March 8, 2009
When we left off the AMC dark dramedy Breaking Bad, Walter (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) were having difficulties trying to come up with the large amount of meth they promised to Tuco (Raymond Cruz), a sociopath drug kingpin who eventually became the two‘s distributor. Walter, of course, is the high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, turned to making meth to support his family.
July 2, 2008
Last Thursday the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences unveiled the comedy and drama series up for Primetime Emmy nominations. Though those lists were made public, the nominations in the acting categories have been kept secret – though Gold Derby‘s Tom O‘Neil has tapped his sources and sifted through rumors to provide the unofficial top 10 lists of who made the cut.